The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5Robert Anderson Arch, 1795 |
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... hell , earth , chaos , all ; the argument Held me a while mifdoubting his intent , That he would ruin ( for I faw him ftrong ) The facred truths to fable and old fong ; ( 50 Sampion grop'd the temple's posts in spite ) The world o ...
... hell , earth , chaos , all ; the argument Held me a while mifdoubting his intent , That he would ruin ( for I faw him ftrong ) The facred truths to fable and old fong ; ( 50 Sampion grop'd the temple's posts in spite ) The world o ...
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... hell , defcrib'd here , not in the centre ( for heaven and earth may be fuppofed as yet not made , certainly not yet accurs'd ) , but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest call'd Chaos : here Satan , with his angels lying on the ...
... hell , defcrib'd here , not in the centre ( for heaven and earth may be fuppofed as yet not made , certainly not yet accurs'd ) , but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest call'd Chaos : here Satan , with his angels lying on the ...
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... hell to work in fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undiminish'd , or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? Whereto with speedy words th ' arch - fiend reply'd ...
... hell to work in fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undiminish'd , or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? Whereto with speedy words th ' arch - fiend reply'd ...
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... hell , a hell of heav'n . What matter where , if I be ftill the fame , And what I fhould be , all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; th ' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy , will ...
... hell , a hell of heav'n . What matter where , if I be ftill the fame , And what I fhould be , all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; th ' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy , will ...
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... Hell . With these came they , who from the bord'ring Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground , had general names Of Baalim and Ashtaroth , those male , These feminine . For fpirits , when they please , Can ...
... Hell . With these came they , who from the bord'ring Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground , had general names Of Baalim and Ashtaroth , those male , These feminine . For fpirits , when they please , Can ...
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